# General
We share the code and the data used to run most of the tests discussed in the paper "Quantifying the Presence of Ancient Greek and Latin Classics in Early Modern Britain (from 1470 to 1790)", by M. Fantoli, J. Suomela, T. Van Hal, M. Depauw, L. Virkki, M. Tolonen.
## Code
The code can be run with the metadata shared, with the exception of the parts where we announce that it is not replicable. For those parts, the full set of IDs of books in the English Short Title Catalog (ESTC) metadata is needed, which we cannot provide. However, we share the code in order to display what steps we followed. The requirements list the python packages needed.

## Data
Our study is based on the ESTC metadata cleaned and enriched by the COMHIS team of the University of Helsinki. For more information on their work on ESTC analytics , cf. [COMHIS/estc: ESTC analytics](https://github.com/COMHIS/estc?tab=readme-ov-file)  and the paper:  Lahti, L., Ilomäki, N., & Tolonen, M. (2015). A Quantitative Study of History in the English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC), 1470-1800. _LIBER Quarterly: The Journal of the Association of European Research Libraries_, _25_(2), 87-116. [https://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10112](https://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10112).
For this research we have worked on a subset of the ESTC, namely the publication of classical (i.e. Ancient Greek and Latin) works. We provide the full list of ESTC IDs and authors for this subset. We also include the publication decade and whether the author is Ancient Greek or Latin (final_to_publish_enriched.csv)
We also include the list of classical work IDs of the Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), and we share the title of the works (as found in the catalog) with the language information manually added by students. The students annotated both the original language(s) and the language(s) of publication of the works (languages_ECCO_manual_annotation_to_publish.csv). We could not publish the language metadata found in EEBO.